Thursday, May 29, 2014

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop

True beauty is more than skin deep.
Love the person, not the appearance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Our opportunity is always to make the choice for Joy.
To see the world with new eyes - open eyes - loving eyes.
To choose compassion and understanding -
for ourselves, our family, our friends,
our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles
and important matters as important.
- Doris Lessing

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities
in the illuminating light of your own mission
than to have your activities formed by the
impressions and expectations of others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

If a task is important, do it now.
If it is not truly important, forget about it forever, relax,
and do something that really is important.
Caution: The most important things in life are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Monday, May 26, 2014

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

A hero is someone who has given his life
to something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney Harris

You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
- Ovid

Let today be a day of rest - a day not to work, not to worry, not to regret.
Let today be a day to be apart from the world - a day to turn off the television news.
Let today be a day of repose and reflection.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who knows that enough is enough
will always have enough.
- Lao Tzu

Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-ages
that holds the key to breaking
our cycle of self-imposed suffering.
The secret wisdom is,
"Life is not supposed to be fair."
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

The ancestor of every action is a thought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
Write the melody and the lyrics.
Be the soloist and the conductor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen R. Covey

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
[Be of service, but don't be a doormat.]

There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to
agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
- Bryant H. McGill

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- Desmond Tutu

When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
-Steve Maraboli

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth
and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
- William Faulkner

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure
that you are always blessed in abundance.
- Joel Osteen

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Saturday, May 3, 2014

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ...
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
- Stephen R. Covey

Choose your life purpose, and excel at living into that purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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